Sales Rank:156 List Price: $18.98 Lowest New Price: $8.34 Lowest Used Price: $5.02 Artist(s):
The Beatles
Tracks:
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
With A Little Help From My Friends
Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds
Getting Better
Fixing A Hole
She's Leaving Home
Being For The Benefit Of Mr. Kite!
Within You Without You
When I'm Sixty-Four
Lovely Rita
Good Morning Good Morning
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)
A Day In The Life
One of the most famous and influential albums ever recorded, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band had a huge impact on the music world, signaling the beginning of a new era of sophistication and maturity in rock. The musical experimentation was dynamic and fresh, several tracks were edited to create seamless transitions, and even the visual design was more elaborate than anything previously attempted. Producer George Martin and The Beatles searched for new sounds and studio effects. They added crowd sounds and animal cries from sound-effects recordings, sped up Paul McCartney's vocals in "When I'm Sixty-Four" (to make him sound younger), and sustained a single piano chord for 40 seconds to end "A Day In The Life." The orchestrations, scored by Martin, were hailed by critics as bridging the gap between pop and classical music, and many people who had never bought a rock record bought Sgt. Pepper's. EMI. 2005.
Sales Rank:113 List Price: $18.98 Lowest New Price: $8.61 Lowest Used Price: $4.88 Artist(s):
Jonas Brothers
Tracks:
S.O.S
Hold On
Goodnight And Goodbye
That's Just The Way We Roll
Hello Beautiful
Still In Love With You
Australia
Games
When You Look Me In The Eyes
Inseparable
Just Friends
Hollywood
Year 3000
Kids Of The Future
Jonas Brothers' self-titled album features the hits "Hold On", "Kids of the Future", "Year 3000" and more in CDVU+ (pronounced "view plus"), the new way to "VU" music. Bonus content is accessible from any type of computer (PC or Mac). The project includes 10 exclusive videos, 75 printable photos, lyrics, a personalized autographed poster creator, and hidden links.
Sales Rank:92 List Price: $15.98 Lowest New Price: $8.58 Lowest Used Price: $7.00 Artist(s):
Trans-Siberian Orchestra
Tracks:
An Angel Came Down - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Gruber
O Come All Ye Faithful/O Holy Night - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Oakeley, Frederick
A Star to Follow - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, ONeill, Paul [1]
First Snow - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, ONeill, Paul
The Silent Nutcracker - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Kinkel, Robert
A Mad Russian's Christmas - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Kinkel, Robert
The Prince of Peace - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Mendelssohn, Felix
Christmas Eve/Sarajevo 12/24 - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Kinkel, Robert
Good King Joy - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Kinkel, Robert
Ornament - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, ONeill, Paul [1]
The First Noel - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Sandys, William
Old City Bar - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, ONeill, Paul [1]
Promises to Keep - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Kinkel, Robert
This Christmas Day - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, ONeill, Paul [1]
An Angel Returned - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, ONeill, Paul [1]
O Holy Night - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Adam, Adolphe
God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen - Trans-Siberian Orchestra, Traditional
Is the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's Christmas Eve and Other Stories a holiday rock opera? Or perhaps just a holiday prog-rock disc? Or maybe it's New Age? Whatever the case may be, this isn't your typical Christmas album. Filled with electric guitar solos, plenty of synthesized keyboards, a children's choir, and lively drumming, Christmas Eve can only be compared to one other record, the Trans-Siberian Orchestra's other holiday disc, The Christmas Attic. On this CD, angelic vocal solos (on numbers such as "The Prince of Peace") are interspersed with driving instrumentals. Sentimental, occasionally bombastic, but as high-concept as holiday albums can be. --Jason Verlinde
Sales Rank:131 List Price: $18.98 Lowest New Price: $7.57 Lowest Used Price: $7.79 Artist(s):
The Beatles
Tracks:
Come Together
Something
Maxwell's Silver Hammer
Oh! Darling
Octopus's Garden
I Want You (She's So Heavy)
Here Comes the Sun
Because
You Never Give Me Your Money
Sun King
Mean Mr. Mustard
Polythene Pam
She Came in Through the Bathroom Window
Golden Slumbers
Carry That Weight
End
Her Majesty
The Beatles' last days as a band were as productive as any major pop phenomenon that was about to split. After recording the ragged-but-right Let It Be, the group held on for this ambitious effort, an album that was to become their best-selling. Though all four contribute to the first side's writing, John Lennon's hard-rocking, "Come Together" and "I Want You (She's So Heavy)" make the strongest impression. A series of song fragments edited together in suite form dominates side two; its portentous, touching, official close ("Golden Slumbers"/"Carry That Weight"/"The End") is nicely undercut, in typical Beatles fashion, by Paul McCartney's cheeky "Her Majesty," which follows. --Rickey Wright
Sales Rank:184 List Price: $13.98 Lowest New Price: $8.68 Lowest Used Price: $9.05 Artist(s):
Barenaked Ladies
Tracks:
Raisins
The Ninjas
Pollywog In A Bog
7,8,9
Food Party
Canadian Snacktime Snacktime
Canadian Snacktime Popcorn
Canadian Snacktime Vegetable To
Drawing
Humongous Tree
Eraser
My Big Sister
Louis Loon
I Don t Like
Allergies
I Can Sing
What A Wild Tune
Here Come The Geese
Bad Day
Things
A Word For That
Curious
Wishing
Crazy ABC's
Multi-platinum recording artist Barenaked Ladies will release Snacktime, a collection of 24 original children’s songs through their imprint label Desperation Records. "Our collective kids now outnumber the band more than 2 to 1," explains vocalist/guitarist Ed Robertson. "We set out to make a record that would be entertaining for them … not strictly a children’s record, but a record that children would really enjoy. Our kids are into all kinds of music. Making the focus about what our kids like was a truly liberating process and fun for the whole band."
Sales Rank:228 List Price: $15.98 Lowest New Price: $9.63 Lowest Used Price: $9.62 Artist(s):
Mary Mary
Tracks:
Intro featuring Deborah Joy Imani Winans
The Sound
Get Up
Superfriend featuring David Banner
God In Me featuring Kierra 'Kiki' Sheard
Boom
I'm Running
Forgiven Me
Dirt
Seattle
I Worship You
It Will All Be Worth It
The Sound album released in 2008 shows Mary Mary are not ones to shy away from in-your-face declarations of faith, the girls are now more intentional than ever about whom they adore, without for a moment compromising their call to innovation and growth. The introspective 'Seattle' is a prime example, a pensive prayer that asks the Lord to descend upon the soul the same way rain falls on the Emerald City. In the vein of Mary Mary standards 'Can't Give Up Now' and 'Yesterday,' a couple of ballads on The Sound stand out for their passionate delivery: 'I Trust You' (feat. Marvin Winans) and 'I Worship You' are easily the sonic and spiritual plateaus of the album.